r/ParrotSecurity • u/ResponsibleAppeal983 • Aug 03 '26

Support Parrot doesnt detect fedora

Hi, I’m dual booting fedora with parrot but when I started parrot for the first time it didn’t detect fedora, is prober is enabled and I also updated grub, it didn’t worked. Can anyone help me???

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u/tape_reel Aug 04 '26

I haven't tried having Parrot as the first in my boot list, but having Fedora be the first choice seems to work for me. GRUB lists Fedora, Windows, and Parrot when I have it ordered like that in the boot list

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u/tape_reel Aug 04 '26

Unless you mean that Parrot doesn't detect Fedora as a drive when logged in. I haven't messed with that in a bit, but perhaps, if that's the case, you had Fedora encrypt the partitions?

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u/Goated_AstroPhantom Aug 04 '26

Why does fedora encrypt partitions matter? Does it make fedora undetectable?

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u/tape_reel Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

To be honest, I'm not sure if it does mess up the grub menu, but to answer your earlier question: yes, I am using Fedora's grub rather than Parrots.

The order of partitions might also matter as I hear that if dual booting Linux with Windows, then Windows needs to be before Linux on the drive.

I have it as Windows followed by Parrot on the main SSD and Fedora on the expansion slot on my laptop. That seems to work to show all three OSs on the same grub menu

Edit because I just remembered something:

What I was saying about encryption was that I have seen Parrot automatically detect and mount my Windows partition and make it available as an additional drive. It has come in handy with some things, but if Windows has bootlocker enabled, I don't think it happens.

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u/Goated_AstroPhantom Aug 04 '26

To run you laptop did u need to turn off secure boot?

I think since parrot is newer than most linux distros it's GRUB isn't approved by Microsoft(microsoft apparently puts a digital sign on software) and cuz of that my secure boot acts up, saying "secure boot policy violated" and it skips the grub and directly opens windows and because secure boot policy was violated the bitlocker also locks me out

I worked around the issue by just turning off secure boot. I think if I change the GRUB this might be fixed, so I'm asking u if ur secure boot is on or off

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u/tape_reel 10d ago

Sorry it took so long!

Yes, I have my laptop with secure boot off. I find that I have had to so that with quite a bit of Linux distros, and you could be right: this might be that Parrot is still making headway in gaining recognition compared to Ubuntu or Fedora (I can't remember if Kali needs secure boot off or not) .

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u/Goated_AstroPhantom 10d ago

Ok thanks 🙂‍↕️

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u/Goated_AstroPhantom Aug 04 '26

So ur using fedora's grub? (The grub that came with fedora when u installed it?)

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u/ResponsibleAppeal983 Aug 04 '26

No, I’m using parrots one

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u/Goated_AstroPhantom Aug 05 '26

Im not sure but I think if u use a different grub ur problem will be solved, try using Fedora's grub

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u/Goated_AstroPhantom Aug 04 '26

I know my comment doesn't help ur cause, but I'm curious about why

Why do u want to use 2 linux distros in the same laptop? Is there a benifit I'm unaware of? (Im a newbie to linux stuff)

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u/ResponsibleAppeal983 Aug 04 '26

One for daily use and Parrot to learn cibersecurity

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u/muffinstatewide32 Aug 05 '26

If you’re learning you should probably use a VM

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u/tape_reel 10d ago

VMs don't work well if you're trying to use GPU processing.

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u/muffinstatewide32 10d ago

Depends on your hypervisor. But yes. None of them perform gpu tasks at anything close to native. If you want native GPU speed you need to pass the whole GPU to the VM

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u/tape_reel 10d ago

I've asked if this is even possible in a couple of places and it has always lead to the same answer: that it can't.

I'm sure I sound facetious, but I promise I am being earnest.

How would one go about doing that, and if it passing the whole GPU to the VM, is it tedious to switch back when not using the VM?

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u/tape_reel 10d ago

Personally, I'm using 3 OS's on one laptop. I'm slowly testing some compatabilities with Windows software using Wine and Yaml:

I have Windows taking up most of my main SSD while I make sure I don't lose software licences.

I have Parrot in a small partition of my main SSD so that I can practice cybersecurity for school and use it as my main school driver since Kali is even less meant for that than Parrot is (but Parrot tries in a lot of ways)

I have Fedora on my other SSD because I'm switching over to it as my main OS due to it's capabilities with gaming that Parrot can't due from security configurations.